Israel ‘doesn’t make sense’ according to Seth Rogen and Marc Maron

The interviewer and his guest touched on the always touchy subject of Israel, and that's where the controversy started to flare up. Maron stated, "we’re gonna piss off a bunch of Jews," and as it turns out, he was right. The conversation took on a decidedly anti-Israel tone, as both Maron and Rogen questioned whether the state of Israel should even exist. Rogen even went on to say "I'm afraid of Jews... I'm 100 percent afraid of Jews".

Israel is always a controversial subject, no matter what your opinions are on it. There's probably no better way to get into a heated argument in public than to start talking about all the issues surrounding Israel and the rest of the Middle East. But it seems the podcast pair really wanted to outdo themselves and set a new record for amount of feathers ruffled.

Mondoweiss, a far left website, went as far as to support Rogen's provocative and incendiary statements and actually even had included initially the phrase "ethnic cleansing" in the title of their article, but later retracted it.

On the other hand, Isreallycool and many other Jewish media outlets had no problem weighing in at the other side of the spectrum, calling Rogen's claims "particularly ludicrous", and asked pointedly what would have happened to the Jewish refugees from Yemen, Iraq, Ethiopia, as well as the rest of the Middle East if Israel hadn't been there to receive them.

The Washington Examiner went even further in its scathing criticism of Rogen. Seth Mandel, the editor, tweeted the following: “I thought this was going to prove to be an oversimplification but it’s not, if anything Rogen’s actual comments are worse. Welcome to Political Judaism--the suicide cult of the diaspora.”

Questions have been raised about whether Rogen is possibly suffering from self-esteem issues and perhaps projecting his low self-image onto the rest of his culture. Another possibility is that he's just being a troll and trying to stay in the media as much as possible, since he's due to release a major project very soon.